It’s Italian American Heritage Month! Get to know our Italian and cultural studies journals to stay up to date on new research, book reviews, creative work, and more. Plus, check […]
Celebrating Italian American Heritage

It’s Italian American Heritage Month! Get to know our Italian and cultural studies journals to stay up to date on new research, book reviews, creative work, and more. Plus, check […]
Join UIP in welcoming Alan J. Gravano as the new editor of Italian Americana! His inaugural issue, Volume XLIII, Number 1, is out now. Check it out for the featured […]
What is animal ethics and what disciplines interact with it? What are some common themes and how does the academic discourse form around them? Dr. Clair Linzey, co-editor of Journal […]
In anticipation of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society (AFS), we invite you to explore a curated selection of articles from the Journal of American Folklore (JAF: […]
Going into the 2025 volume year with 50 years of history, the Journal of Education Finance is expanding to become the Journal of Education Finance and Law through the Education […]
Did you miss us? We’re back again with all the Journals news from the first half of 2025 in this Journals Q1–Q2 UPdate! We are proud to announce that we […]
Calling all film scholars! Back by popular demand, Journal of Film and Video, the official journal of the University of Film & Video Association, is releasing a reading list of […]
In the latest episode of the University of Illinois Press podcast, The UPside, we sat down (virtually) with Guest Editors Dr. Stephen Townsend, Dr. Rebecca Olive, Dr. Murray G. Phillips, […]
Created by President Jimmy Carter in 1979, this month celebrates the African American musical influences that comprise an essential part of our nation’s treasured cultural heritage. Let’s dig in with […]
Looking to dive into some fascinating sports scholarship? Check out our multimedia reading/listening list, featuring podcast episodes from our show, The UPside, that focus on articles from the Journal of […]
The 21st annual Music and the Moving Image Conference is taking place Friday, May 30, 2025, through Sunday, June 1, 2025. Presentations, like articles that appear in the journal, explore […]
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month—a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. In celebration of this month’s festivities, we are so pleased to […]